Women in Cyber Unlimited
Networking and support for women working in the cyber security industry
Founded in Wales, active internationally
Upcoming Events
Defending the Future: Women in Cyber Conference 2026
We are delighted to be planning for our 2026 conference! Taking place at the ICC Wales on Monday 23rd March 2026, we will once again invite a selection of high profile speakers who are experts in their field, to share insights into their careers and addressing current cyber security challenges. We'll be joining forces with CyberFirst Wales to bring along Year 8 girls who have taken part in the CyberFirst Girls Competition. We hope you will join us. For more details and tickets, please visit our Eventbrite page.
If you are a company who may like to sponsor the event, you can request a copy of our sponsor pack here.
Past Events
View our past events here
Hybrid Meeting - 15 September 2025
We had an excellent meeting in September, hearing from from truly inspirational speakers including Belen Acuña, Whats Exposed, Madelaine Thomas, Image Angel and Emma Derbi from Positive Cyber Solutions. With a blend of in person and online attendees, the discussions were interesting and informative.
CyberUK 2025
About 180 women and allies joined us at CyberUK 2025. The event is a really positive way to start the day, and we were delighted to hear from Clare T, NCSC and Lockheed Martin who kindly sponsored the event. The event was also supported by UKC3, and ITSUS Consulting.
Resilient Futures: Women in Cyber 2025
Our 2025 conference was a great success, with just under 200 delegates attending. Held in the ICC Wales on Wednesday 12th February 2025, we were once again joined by the CyberFirst Wales Girls Competition finalists at the event. We had an opening address from Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy & Planning, Welsh Government, a keynote from Siân John MBE, NCC Group, and a closing address from Felicity Oswald, COO of the NCSC.
Thank you to our sponsors for supporting this event:
Platinum: Airbus Defence and Space, Admiral Group Plc
Gold: Wales Cyber Innovation Hub, Wales and West Utilities
Supported by:
ITSUS Consulting Ltd, ADS, TechUK
Images by Claudia Lewis (c)
Hybrid Meeting - 3 December 2024
Our Christmas meeting will include 4 excellent speakers and an opportunity for networking with refreshments. Being held in Cardiff University's Sparc Building, we will hear from Debi McCormack of The Cyber Scheme, Ms Auhood Al Ali, from Etisalat, UAE, Steph Aldridge of Neuro Cyber and Yulia Cherdantseva, Cardiff University. Visit our Eventbrite page to book your place.
Hybrid Meeting - 19 September 2024
Our Autumn meeting was held at Cardiff Metropolitan University on Thursday 19th September. We heard from Valeen Oseh, Founder of TisOva, Welsh Government's Ruth Stockley, Elaine Haigh from Cardiff University and Shinie Bentotahewa from Cardiff Met, who hosted the event and provided us with a very tasty lunch.
CyberUK 24
We had an amazing turnout for the 3rd Women in Cyber networking breakfast at the National Cyber Security Centre's CyberUK 2024 event on 15th May 2024. From humble beginnings in Wales in 2022, we have now run this event in Belfast in 2023 and now Birmingham in 2024.
Speakers included Clare T from the NCSC and Kirsty Miller from Lockheed Martin who kindly sponsored the event. The event was also supported by UKC3, Cyber Wales and ITSUS Consulting.
Hybrid meeting, 20th Mar 24
Our hybrid meeting took place at the Sparc building in Cardiff, with both online and in person attendance. Kindly supported by the Cyber Innovation Hub, we enjoyed a networking lunch before the main meeting started at 2pm.
Speakers included Liz Lewis, talking about the Cyber Innovation Hub's newly formed neurodiversity network; Colette King, from ALD Automotive, talking about her role and the important issues of stress and burnout; and Kylie Barnes from Hays Recruitment, outlining the findings of their salaries and consultancy report. Finally, we had a session on authentic networking from Heather Anstey-Myers and Kate Carr. It was an excellent afternoon, with lots of opportunity for networking.
We had an absolute blast at Securing the Future: Women in Cyber 2024, which took place in the stunning ICC Wales, sponsored by the Wales Cyber Innovation Hub and Admiral. Speakers talked about a range of cyber security challenges, and workshops covered authentic leadership, and coaching and mentoring. We had around 150 delegates, who all took part in a short but challenging CTF run by Admiral. In the afternoon, we joined forces with CyberFirst Wales and invited 40 Year 8 girls who made it to the girls competition final to join the last session, followed by a celebration dinner in their honour.
The day's events were captured by the very talented Laura Sorvala.
Festive Mixer, 6th Dec 2023
We joined forces with the Cyber Innovation Hub for our December meeting. Hosted at Tramshed Tech in Cardiff, we linked with women across the Tech sector for a 'Festive Mixer', complete with cheese and wine.
There were some excellent speakers, talking about their work and their experiences as women in tech, and we had some thought provoking discussions afterwards.
Hybrid meeting, 6th July
Our first hybrid meeting was a great success. We had 26 people attend in person, and another 20 online. The meeting was kindly hosted by the Cyber Innovation Hub, at the Sparc building in Cardiff. We had a keynote from Sophie Kneeshaw, talking about how she moved from an arts teaching career to a software developer at Sky. We also heard from Holly Lidbury about the CyberFirst programme in Wales, Kevin Dainty on the highly successful Reed Women in Technology Mentoring Scheme, and from Dr Elham Hassanain about women in cyber initiatives in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. We closed the meeting with a skills workshop, led by Dr Yulia Cherdantseva.
CyberUK 2023
We were really excited to get together at the NCSC's CyberUK event in Belfast, in April 2023. The event was opened by Charlotte from the NCSC, and we estimate that around 150 women attended. Yes, we ran out of breakfast and the space was a little snug, but there was a real buzz about the place and feedback has been really positive. Next year we hope to build on this, perhaps by having a speaker and more opportunities to network.
Our last meeting: 22nd Feb 2023
We held an online meeting on 22nd February 2023, 12pm - 1.30pm, with great attendance. We heard from Dr Kiri Addison, Mimecast, and Ellie Dew who is setting up a network for Young Women in Cyber. Clare Bourne from Cynam also talked about her experience on the Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security programme. If you missed us, keep an eye on our socials for notice of our next meeting.
What a brilliant turnout we had at CyberUK, held in the ICC, Newport, Wales in May 2022. The NCSC kindly agreed to let us run a Women in Cyber networking breakfast on Day 2. Scheduled for an 8am start, on a day that turned out to be dull and rainy, it was amazing to see so many women attending, demonstrating just how important these networking meetings can be. Thanks to everyone who came along. Hopefully we have started a regular feature at future CyberUK conferences!
Picture shows the 65 or so women who came along, plus Clare Johnson (Women in Cyber Wales) & Ciara Mitchell (Scotland IS).
Women in Cyber at CyberUK 2022
Summer Social July 2022
On Tuesday 19th July we met in-person in Tramshed Tech in Cardiff for our summer social. We didn't have a speaker at this event, but used it as an opportunity to have general networking conversations over a soft drink. It was a hot, hot, hot day, so the air conditioning was most welcome!
Our March 22 meeting
It was brilliant to have Deborah Haworth, Chief Information Security Officer, Penguin Random House UK join us at our March meeting. Along with Dhipa Lee, Head of Identity & Access Management (IAM) for Ballina we learned about some of the challenges and highlights of careers in cyber security.
We were delighted to be joined by Sema Yuce, Director of Truth, ISC and Bridget Kenyon, Chief Information Security Officer, EMEA, and Information Security Programmes Leader at Thales Digital Identity and Security for our last meeting of 2021. Sadly Deborah couldn't make it and will speak at a future meeting. We had some fascinating discussions including pathways into the industry as well as hearing about the roles that Sema and Bridget have.
Our October 21 meeting
Our October meeting took place on Thursday 7th October, 3.30pm - 5pm. We had a fantastic line up of women working in the cyber security industry including Lorraine Dryland, Global CISO of First Sentier Investors, Anna-Lisa Miller, CISO of Spectris, Dr Hoda Alkhzaimi, Director of the Centre of Cyber Security, New York University in Abu Dhabi, and Chani Simms, MD of Meta Defence Labs and founder of She/He CISO.
Girls in Cyber
In April 2021, we hosted a special event linking some of our members to a recently formed Girls in Cyber network. Members shared information on their journeys into cyber, and some of the challenges and opportunities their work has given them.
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